How are the total revenue of a firm, market price, and the quantity sold by the firm related to each other?
Total revenue is defined as the total sales proceeds of a producer by selling corresponding level of output. In other words it is defined as price times the quantity of output sold.
Total revenue = Price Quantity of output sold
TR = P × Q
TR = PQ
In a perfectly competitive market the market price is given i.e. a firm acts as a price taker and cannot influence the price. Hence a particular firm can influence its TR by altering the quantity of output sold.
The market price of a good changes from Rs 5 to Rs 20. As a result, the quantity supplied by a firm increases by 15 units. The price elasticity of the firm’s supply curve is 0.5. Find the initial and final output levels of the firm.
A firm earns a revenue of Rs 50 when the market price of a good is Rs 10. The market price increases to Rs 15 and the firm now earns a revenue of Rs 150. What is the price elasticity of the firm’s supply curve?
What is the supply curve of a firm in the long run?
How does the imposition of a unit tax affect the supply curve of a firm?
What is the relation between market price and average revenue of a price-taking firm?
What is the relation between market price and marginal revenue of a price-taking firm?
How does an increase in the number of firms in a market affect the market supply curve?
Compute the total revenue, marginal revenue and average revenue schedules in the following table. Market price of each unit of the good is Rs 10.
Quantity Sold | TR | MR | AR |
---|---|---|---|
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 |
How does an increase in the price of an input affect the supply curve of a firm?
Will a profit-maximising firm in a competitive market ever produce a positive level of output in the range where the marginal cost is falling? Give an explanation.
Explain the concept of a production function
What would be the shape of the demand curve so that the total revenue curve is?
(a) A positively sloped straight line passing through the origin?
(b) A horizontal line?
Explain market equilibrium.
Discuss the central problems of an economy.
What do you mean by the budget set of a consumer?
What is the total product of input?
From the schedule provided below calculate the total revenue, demand curve and the price elasticity of demand:
Quantity |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
8 |
9 |
Marginal Revenue |
10 |
6 |
2 |
2 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
- |
When do we say that there is an excess demand for a commodity in the market?
What do you mean by the production possibilities of an economy?
What is budget line?
Let the production function of a firm be Q=5L1/2K1/2Q=5L1/2K1/2 Find out the maximum possible output that the firm can produce with 100 units of LL and 100 units of KK.
What do you mean by the production possibilities of an economy?
When does a production function satisfy decreasing returns to scale?
Suppose your friend is indifferent to the bundles (5, 6) and (6, 6). Are the preferences of your friend monotonic?
Explain how price is determined in a perfectly competitive market with a fixed number of firms.
Let the production function of a firm be Q=2 L2 K2Q=2 L2 K2
Find out the maximum possible output that the firm can produce with 5 units of LL and 2 units of KK. What is the maximum possible output that the firm can produce with zero units of LL and 10 units of KK?
What do you mean by complements? Give examples of two goods which are complements of each other.
Will the monopolist firm continue to produce in the short run if a loss is incurred at the best short run level of output?
Explain market equilibrium.
How do the equilibrium price and the quantity of a commodity change when the price of input used in its production changes?